Former world football star Brazilian Ronaldo de Assis Moreira, known as Ronaldinho, has now been imprisoned for a month in Paraguay. He and his brother were arrested on March 6, accused of entering Paraguayan territory in possession of false passports and placed in pre-trial detention.
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Ronaldinho had arrived in Asuncion to promote a book and participate in various charitable events. The former FC Barcelona and PSG player is currently in an improvised cell, the office of a police station in the capital Asuncion. His trial has been stopped since the entry into force of measures to stem the covid-19 pandemic, freezing judicial activity at least until Easter.
Passport confiscated in 2018
Alongside his brother Roberto, the 2002 world champion is said to have lost a football match to two other prisoners, one convicted of murder and the other for theft. News that circulated on social networks. According to information collected by the Spanish daily El Mundo from his ex-teammate, Carles Puyol, Ronaldinho has a mobile phone and can thus communicate with his friends.
Brazilian justice deprived Ronaldinho of a passport at the end of 2018, following a fine of 2.5 million dollars (around 2.25 million euros), which he never paid, for having built an unauthorized pier at the edge of a lake in a protected area, according to Brazilian media.